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Show HN: Say Toucan – my feedback board 3x'd its price, so I built my own(saytoucan.com)
1 points by artoonie 12d ago|0 comments
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Gig Workers Gather Their Own Data to Check the Algorithm’s Math(wired.com)
8 points by artoonie 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: A lightweight, themeable range slider with a timeline(artoonie.github.io)
1 points by artoonie 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: How and when to use Twitter DMs as your database(medium.com)
4 points by artoonie 6y ago|0 comments
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A DM-based database for twitterbots on AWS Lambda(medium.com)
1 points by artoonie 6y ago|0 comments
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by artoonie 6y ago
There are some anecdotes that it also happens on Rideshare, but I don't have a car so I can't verify until Uber allows me to pick up passengers on the handlebars of my bike
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by artoonie 6y ago
I just got a lease on an UberCopter. Runways are too far from restaurants. Hope it works out for me!
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by artoonie 6y ago
https://imgur.com/v4bSD5S I was paid 1 mile, actual distance 3.5-4.0 miles. Previous versions of the app would use the first result returned by Google Directions API, which could have been best not shortest (I'm not su
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by artoonie 6y ago
The salon article was posted with about 8 hours of data in Google Analytics. Business Insider has more up-to-date numbers, with about 4 days of data from the Chrome Extension.
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by artoonie 6y ago
(b) you can change your tip afterward if your service was not as expected. Just like in a restaurant: maybe your default tip is 25%, but great service bumps that up, and bad service bumps it down. You go in expecting to pay 25%.
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by artoonie 6y ago
Most spot on (within 0.5 mi), some overpayments. Overpayments are much less frequent than underpayments, and regardless: when someone accepts a trip, who knows if they did it because they thought "that amount sounds fair" or thoug
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by artoonie 6y ago
Because Uber doesn't pretend to pay based on miles traveled for UberEats - they pay on shortest distance. So a GPS tracker is insufficient.
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UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips(businessinsider.com)
224 points by artoonie 6y ago|141 comments
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by artoonie 6y ago
Exactly! That's why it took me (the guy in the article) so many phone calls and emails with Uber before somebody admitted the bug - and I got it on tape (with their consent). Must have spent five hours dealing with support before they
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by artoonie 6y ago
That's my guess - but only sometimes. Most of the time they correctly compute distance traveled. If they consistently did it as a straight line distance, that's that - it's their stupid algorithm. In this case, it's a bu
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by artoonie 6y ago
More details - Is this real? Yeah! Listen to them admit to the bug on tape here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNI2kVAyEQ4 How do I use the extension? Install it, pin it, then follow these instructions: https:/&#x2F
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Show HN: UberCheats: a Chrome Extension to detect if UberEats is underpaying you(twitter.com)
17 points by artoonie 6y ago|3 comments
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by artoonie 8y ago
Point is (and I should clarify in the post): qt doesn't document which functions do and don't update the GUI, and you have no guarantees when calling an arbitrary Qt function that it won't. This is practical advice to stay sa
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Avoiding random crashes when multithreading Qt(medium.com)
1 points by artoonie 8y ago|2 comments
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Did Facebook Graph Search Just Change? It broke an Anti-TrumpCare tool!
3 points by artoonie 9y ago|0 comments
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by artoonie 15y ago
Agreed, I just lost because of improper python syntax. Hardcore C would be more fun, with memsets and frees such that bugs can exist in memory management.